投稿者: Helen Davidson
Activists say crackdown is driven by Xi Jinping, who has ‘declared a war on independent journalism’Chen Kun was living in Indonesia with his wife and daughter when he learned from his brother Mei’s boss that he had been “taken away for investigation” b…
Critics describe Sunday’s vote as ‘illegitimate’ as Beijing tightens its crackdown on dissent and pro-democracy movement is wiped outDays before Hong Kong’s legislative council election, 15 months after it was supposed to be held, former legislator Ted…
Central American country becomes latest to switch allegiances to Beijing, amid escalating tensionsNicaragua has switched diplomatic allegiance to China, leaving Taiwan with just 14 governments around the world that formally recognise it as a country.Th…
Article that says ‘no party member should use any excuse’ to have only one or two children goes viral then disappearsAn editorial in a Chinese state-run news website has suggested Communist party members are obliged to have three children for the good …
Reporters Without Borders calls increasing media oppression in China a ‘great leap backwards’ and says Hong Kong journalism is ‘in freefall’Xi Jinping has created a “nightmare” of media oppression worthy of the Mao era, and Hong Kong’s journalism is in…
Beijing dismisses no-show and says American officials had not been invited in the first place, as other countries consider their positionsChina has reacted angrily to the US government’s diplomatic boycott of next year’s Winter Olympics, as more countr…
Researchers say Beijing used cloud-seeding to create artificial rain and lower pollution in July, in latest example of ‘blueskying’ effortsChinese weather authorities successfully controlled the weather ahead of a major political celebration earlier th…
Content was often ‘embarrassingly’ produced and pumped out via repurposed accounts, analysts sayTwitter has shut down thousands of state-linked accounts in China that seek to counter evidence of human rights abuses in Xinjiang, as part of what experts …
Vice-foreign minister Xie Feng tells industry figures to push US government toward a ‘rational’ China policy and end ‘ideological’ conflictsBeijing has urged US business groups with interests in China to “speak out” and lobby the US government in its d…
Listing properties on land owned by XPCC, which has been linked to human rights abuses, risks breaching US regulationsAirbnb has reportedly listed more than a dozen properties on land owned by the Xinjiang paramilitary corporation, which has been sanct…
Former vice minister of security Sun Lijun accused of extreme ‘political ambition’ and leading a corrupt and extravagant lifeA former senior Chinese official has been accused of a raft of corruption offences, expelled from the Communist party and put o…
Tight security in Tiananmen Square as country marks CCP centenary and China’s president warns against oppression by ‘foreign forces’ 4.00am BST This blog is closing now. You can read our report on Xi Jinping’s centenary speech here. Thank you for readi…
Tabloid founded by Jimmy Lai and targeted by police raid last week will print final edition on Thursday‘The blackest day’: Apple Daily’s demise comes as no surpriseHong Kong’s largest pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, will shut down online at midni…
Arrest of journalist who publishes under the name Li Ping is the first of a writer at the pro-democracy newspaperThe editorial writer for Hong Kong’s Apple Daily newspaper has been arrested, the latest move in a media crackdown under the national secu…